Hi HN - I built this to satisfy a personal itch and learn more about chrome extensions. I always felt like I would set and forget bookmarks so I wanted a way to be reminded of them daily.
That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!
Cool idea! Do you think you could extend the intervals it sends out emails? I, for one, would really appreciate being able to have a weekly digest of links that I could check out on the weekend instead of a daily email.
I wanted to add that but I didn't have time this weekend. That's actually my biggest feature request from myself :P. I'm super busy over the next couple weeks, but I'll see what I can do to add this, maybe even just a hard coded "Send this only on Friday."
Nice Idea.
I'm using Zotero with the FF addon as a bookmarker and subscribed to the RSS-feed in telegram via bot. This way everyone in my workgroup gets notified about new bookmarks.
This is the best approach to bookmarking I've seen yet.
I manage a multi-author blog, and I've tried lots of different ways to share story ideas with the authors. This provides an easy way to send out the day's reading.
Whatever revenue model you need to make this viable long-term, I hope it works out. I'd gladly pay a subscription price for this service.
Hey thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad you find this tool helpful. If you have a minute, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could improve it further. My email is in my profile. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
We at https://tefter.io are working on an alternative way to discover new content and organise bookmarks.
We started off with a similar idea to linkdrop but then thought there's more to bookmarking than that.
So a user may subscribe to a variety of feeds and users, https://tefter.io/~hackernews is of course one of them and have
a personalised newsfeed. From the newsfeed posts can be bookmarked and kept in a "weekend reads" list. Bookmarks can be marked as read. However bookmarks can be easily added from any devise, since we offer browser extensions, mobile and desktop apps, slack integration. One can also import from pocket or pinboard.
Concerning newsletters, we thought they may be annoying. Imagine waking up on a Sunday to an email telling you to read stuff.
We're trying to stay in the spirit of HN, sending as little notifications as possible. Our users have better things to do and their attention is important.
I really like simple tools like these. I forget what I bookmark all the time and IMO the chrome bookmarks bar is hard to manage... Nice work & great idea!
Small nitpick: The fields for sign up and create account are the same and should carry over if you switch between the two. For example I entered my email & pass to log in but mean to sign up and had to enter the info twice.
Interesting, the default behavior is for it to carry over but I thought that was weird so I clear the inputs when you switch between the two. I can see how that is annoying since they look so similar.
Oh no it actually just sends whatever hte link is that you bookmarked. Sorry for the confusion! What you described is actually a _really_ cool idea though haha.
Agreed. So many things languish in my bookmarks and RSS reader. I won’t find them unless I know exactly the right words for them to be suggested. I won’t find them even if I’m trying to (had this problem finding the WildDuck post last week).
A periodical check in sounds amazing. “Are you still curious? Y/n”
hmm. it is not something i would use as person. but i would prefer to use this one as SaaS. Something like, some people are using my mobile app, getting interested with some products, i would popup and ask them "do you want me to email you the links, so you can better see the products later in your desktop"
My initial plan was to integrate with Pocket (which I love). I have some ideas for how that would be done.
Building this was more about learning how to build a chrome extension, but I think this might work even better as a tool on top of pocket. Given the interest this is getting + the other conversation about bookmarks I might take on the Pocket+ thing next.
Super cool idea. For my personal use, I'd love if it worked slightly differently, i.e. had the following (additional?) features:
- let me press a button in my browser ("lottery" or "Russian roulette") and just open a random link (from my bookmarks) immediately in the current tab; I'm not interested in emails, but I'm interested in getting inspired sometimes, exactly when I want it and how much I want it :)
- if it could also load bookmarks/favourites from HN & lobste.rs
But you just set up zapier to link new bookmarks to airtable, then use the digest zapier trigger to weekly/daily send a list of all the new links sent to airtable via gmail or the zapier email action.
You can also link this with Mailchimp for a bigger newsletter too (which is in the paywalled tutorial)
At its' current state Randoku mirrors Pinboard's features to a certain extent, but I'd like it to be much more than an archiving solution.
I'm working on introducing "read it later" features (à la Pocket/Instapaper), annotations, discovery of relevant content via RSS and re-discovery of content already bookmarked (which is what I liked about Link Drop).
Randoku does not do that at the moment - I could potentially extend my parser to keep a copy of the closest archived snapshot url from the archive.org public API. I will explore this - thanks
That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!